Gist, Deeanne.
Summary: Essie Spreckelmeyer, a single woman in 1890s Texas, casts her sights on her town's remaining bachelors and widowers to find a match made in heaven while leaving God out of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007
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Summary: Tony Morgan's new job finds him butting heads with Essie Spreckelmeyer, who runs her father's company, Sullivan Oil, and causes him problems when she contradicts his orders, drafts him into a bicycle race, and tangles with his ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISAndrews, Mesu
Summary: "After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father -- high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AndrewsAndrews, Mesu
Summary: Young King Solomon longs for peace and true love, while his promised bride, a shepherdess named Arielah, hopes that Solomon can ignore his distractions and give himself completely to just one woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ANDAndrews, Mesu
Summary: "Before she is Potiphar's wife, Zuleika is the daughter of a king and the wife of a prince. She rules the isle of Crete alongside her mother in the absence of their seafaring husbands. But when tragedy nearly destroys Crete, Zuleika must sacrifice her future to save the Minoan people she loves. Zuleika's father believes his robust trade with Egypt will ensure Pharaoh's obligation to marry his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AndrewsGist, Deeanne.
Summary: When Joe Denton faces losing half of his land because of his wife's death, he decides to buy a bride from the East to marry only in name but keep as a cook, but things get complicated when Mercer girl Anna Ivey refuses to marry him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GISGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GISWest, Morris L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1959
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWest, Catherine (Catherine J.)
Summary: "In the aftermath of her husband's act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she's lost almost everything she's ever loved. With her daughter in college and her son in boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWiseman, Beth
Summary: Lydia and Samuel Bontrager weren't planning to get married, and they certainly weren't prepared when Lydia became pregnant at only seventeen. But they did the right thing, according to the Ordnung and their forceful parents, and wed shortly after finding out Lydia was with child. Now, they are raising their six-month-old daughter, Mattie, and living as husband and wife. Resentful at being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WISSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. After his fiancée's untimely death, he moves to Kansas to serve as a youth minister. But he can't set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian Lori Fowler's strained relationship with her father and her struggles with overeating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House 2021
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Summary: "Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "At the age of twenty-four, postmistress Grace Cristler has all but given up hope of finding a husband among the narrowing group of eligible men in her town of Fairland, Kansas. But when her uncle decides to retire from the pulpit, Grace is responsible for corresponding with the new preacher set to take his place. She can't deny the affection growing in her heart for Reverend Rufus Dillea man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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Summary: "Traveling librarian ventures into the mining towns of Kentucky on horseback and rediscovers her passions in this powerful novel from the best-selling author of A Silken Thread"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compnay 2021
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Summary: "Bringing to life the interworkings of a 1906 chocolate factory and one young crusader's passionate vision to see child workers free of factory work, this historical Christian Romance has a lot of heart and soul"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: "With her trademark realistic characters, rich historical settings, and strong redemptive storytelling, Kim Vogel Sawyer weaves a tale of a young woman looking for a fresh start--and finding a remarkable love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: "They come from different worlds... can love conquer the barriers between them?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SawSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: After his graduation from college, Thomas Ollenburger is filled with big dreams and many questions. What will he do for a career? Should he marry? Where will he call home? Torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and his love for the big city of Boston, as well as his affection for a girl in each location, Thomas is unsure of his place in the world. He has always sought God's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: "Ten-year-old Hazel takes her three-year-old sister to pick berries in a blackberry thicket in 1943, and only one of them comes home again. Young Hazel's world crumbles, the weight of the guilt from that colors every relationship in her life for the next seventy years. But now Hazel's granddaughter Meghan is a cold case agent and has an opportunity to investigate this very personal family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: When tragedy strikes on the prairie, throwing Tarsie and Joss into an unexpected arrangement, can they trust God with their dreams for the future?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Seventeen years after being separated from her brother and sister when they were adopted by different families in Missouri, Maelle, the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants, continues to search for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Having grown apart after learning that they cannot have children, Anthony and Marty Hirschler decide to move away from their Old Order Mennonite community to work for Brooke Spalding to convert an old ghost town into a resort community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018